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Football

by baldur

Posted: 01 July 2004
Word Count: 89
Summary: I was going to write somethingabout this.......but wth?

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It’s not war, it’s not…..it’s football
It’s beautiful
Creative, deceptive
It’s why we watch
Adrenalin pumping testosterone fuelled
Machismo maybe
But watch

The flags flying…do they fly for you?
Or for me
Creation deception
Do you watch them
Or read the tabloids and believe
What they say

Or stand up, and sing
For England
Or France
Or …….
Whoever

But watch the flags fly on the final day
Watch the game even
Twenty two garlanded warriors
Pitted, fighting and desperate to win

And after?
It’s back to the Chablis.

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Nell at 08:30 on 02 July 2004 Report this post

Hi baldur,

I love the way you begin with 'It's not war, it's not...' and near the end say: 'Twenty two garlanded warriors/Pitted, fighting and desperate to win.' Beautiful lines, noble, heroic even. It is war, isn't it? And yet the final lines seem to say 'Ah well, it was only a game.' A subtle poem about a game/war made up of many layers of emotion - patriotism, machismo, team/group spirit, the aesthetic beauty of the players and their skills, and the need for release of the gamut of emotion that we keep bottled up. Possibly a masculine need for battle too, although maybe that's a non-PC statement. Somehow you've said all of the above beautifully. I think this works really well.

Nell.